Holga Thread (its not about the body, but the LENS!) post up

[cgipson1]

Ok, I've discovered it can be a little soft and has some "very very slight and unpredictable" vignetting under bright studio lighting

I like your model... is she available?

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Ok, I've discovered it can be a little soft and has some "very very slight and unpredictable" vignetting under bright studio lighting

I like your model... is she available?

Yeah, her name is Barbie. She's a friend of my granddaughters. No matter how I post process her, she looks plasticky. But she is the MOST COOPERATIVE model I've yet to shoot =)

She's available!

Non-Holga views of her:

 

[shortpants]

Good luck. Funny enough, I did a small photo project about 10 years ago with a Holga when I was in school, and me and my instructor were raving about how I got a really "sharp" copy and it didn't look like I shot with a Holga.
ETA: He was repulsed by them and I was just poor and couldn't afford a real camera to shoot 120.

 

[cgipson1]

Ok, I've discovered it can be a little soft and has some "very very slight and unpredictable" vignetting under bright studio lighting

I like your model... is she available?

Yeah, her name is Barbie. She's a friend of my granddaughters. No matter how I post process her, she looks plasticky. But she is the MOST COOPERATIVE model I've yet to shoot =)

She's available!

Sweet! I would let her walk all over me with those shoes! I think I knew a Barbie about forty years ago.. (friend of my sister).. but she looked a lot more demure than this Barbie... girl next door type, ya know?

 

[cgipson1]

Good luck. Funny enough, I did a small photo project about 10 years ago with a Holga when I was in school, and me and my instructor were raving about how I got a really "sharp" copy and it didn't look like I shot with a Holga.

there is something about "Raving" and "holga" that go together, ya know?

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Ok we're getting serious now!............

 

[shortpants]

This is very unrealistic. Barbies don't eat.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

This is very unrealistic. Barbies don't eat.

I ate those! It was a carb cheat night, I ate the whole box =)

 

[Kombipete]

Well it says 'thin mints' and she looks it.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Ok we're getting serious now!............

Same pic with some grain and B&W effects added in.... I'm almost ready to try this gig on a human model (as an extra shot or two after the shoot!)

 

[Bossy]

I'm confused, Holga Suggestion 8(d) states: "ALWAYS try to shoot a picture in a direction with the sun or light source behind the camera"!?

You get more cute "Flare" that way, darling! Gotta have "Flair" to be a hipster! :lmao:

How are you going to catch Flare with the sun behind the camera?

It has way more vignetting than I thought it would, I was looking at buying that a couple weeks ago :er:

 

[Kombipete]

I'm gunna have to get one!

 

[2WheelPhoto]

I'm confused, Holga Suggestion 8(d) states: "ALWAYS try to shoot a picture in a direction with the sun or light source behind the camera"!?

You get more cute "Flare" that way, darling! Gotta have "Flair" to be a hipster! :lmao:

How are you going to catch Flare with the sun behind the camera?

It has way more vignetting than I thought it would, I was looking at buying that a couple weeks ago :er:

Don't let that stop you. You can see where its happening when you shoot - avoid that area and then crop it out in post =)

 

[Derrel]

Ok, I've discovered it can be a little soft and has some "very very slight and unpredictable" vignetting under bright studio lighting

YOU SIMPLY MUST TELL ME WHO THIS FOXY BLONDE IS!!!!! And does she have a seeeee-ster???

 

[o hey tyler]

very very slight and unpredictable" vignetting under bright studio lighting

Understatement of the millennium.